mamasky said:
Many pharms, and other proprietary chemicals, are not patented.
True and patents expire, so many use the Trade Secrets Act for protection (like, famously, the formula for Coca-Cola) so that they own it forever … clinical trials don’t need the formula — no one can predict how complex biological system will react to any given formula without testing anyway & even small changes can have significant effects.
The most unrealistic thing is Alexandra saying it looks like an anti-aging drug — even the best research chemist in the world could get that unless they’d already worked on it themselves — which is why Lila “studying” it makes little sense (I’d guess it was written or implied there on the paper itself).
mamasky said: Many pharms, and other proprietary chemicals, are not patented.
True and patents expire, so many use the Trade Secrets Act for protection (like, famously, the formula for Coca-Cola) so that they own it forever … clinical trials don’t need the formula — no one can predict how complex biological system will react to any given formula without testing anyway & even small changes can have significant effects.
The most unrealistic thing is Alexandra saying it looks like an anti-aging drug — even the best research chemist in the world could get that unless they’d already worked on it themselves — which is why Lila “studying” it makes little sense (I’d guess it was written or implied there on the paper itself).